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- Portugal Proposes New Golden Visa Rules · 8 min.If your Portugal golden visa plan is a 500,000 euro fund, a new proposal could change which funds qualify. Portugal's two governing parties have filed a budget amendment that…
- Why Antigua Would End Its Own CBI Program · 14 min.If you have Antigua and Barbuda citizenship, or plan to buy it, Europe could suspend your visa-free trips within months without a deal. In an October 30 letter to EU Commissioner…
- Italy Copies France's €800,000 Exit Tax · 12 min.If you live in Italy with 800,000 euros or more in investments, leaving could soon cost you 26 percent of gains you never sold. It is a proposal in Italy's draft budget, not law…
- A New Citizenship Won't Stop Inheritance Tax · 13 min.Your heirs could owe inheritance tax to a country you left years ago, or to one you never lived in. Leave Britain after 20 years, and its 40 percent inheritance tax can follow…
- The ACTUAL Best Citizenships of Each Continent · 14 min.Singapore's passport opens 192 destinations without a visa, yet Singapore bans dual citizenship, so taking a second passport costs you the first. A visa-free count says nothing…
- Antigua May Stop Selling Its Citizenship · 13 min.If Antigua and Barbuda goes on selling its citizenship, every Antiguan could need a visa to visit 29 European countries. On October 24, Prime Minister Gaston Browne said Cabinet…
- Citizenship Takes Longer Than the Law Says · 12 min.Portugal gives its migration agency 90 days to issue a residence permit, and the agency has taken two to three years. Only then does the ten-year count to citizenship begin…
- Which Bought Passports Get Revoked? · 12 min.Turkey has taken back the citizenship of 6,134 people who got it by investing, and 743 of them were never accused of fraud. Every citizenship by investment program reserves the…
- Germany's Plan to End Dual Citizenship · 13 min.Germany let new citizens retain their old passports in 2024, and a record 332,500 people naturalized in 2025. Senior figures in the ruling CDU are now drafting a plan to end it…
- The 8 Places With No Property Tax · 12 min.IMI's review of more than 100 countries and territories found only eight places that charge no annual property tax on a home. They range from Monaco and Malta to the Cayman…
- Is Europe’s Passport-Free Zone Breaking? · 13 min.Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has said his country may have to "defend our border at some point," as IMI reports. Less than a week earlier he spoke of "an army on our border…
- Where Hiding a 2nd Passport Gets Punished · 13 min.Kuwait has stripped citizenship from more than 71,000 people since August 2024, by one independent count. Japan bans dual citizenship too and has never acted against an estimated…
- Norway's Wealth Exodus Is Worse Than You Think · 24 min.Thirty billionaires left Norway in a single year. The government's answer was to build a fiscal Berlin Wall. In 2022, Norway raised its wealth tax to one of the highest levels in…
- 4 Places to Bank Where the Gov’t Won’t Freeze Assets · 11 min.In 2022, Canadian banks froze 206 bank accounts on the grounds they participated in an illegal protest, and no judge signed off on the procedure. Asset freezes like this are…
- 17 Countries with Exit Taxes in 2026 (Up to 42%) · 17 min.17 countries now tax your unrealized gains up to 42% the moment your tax residency ends, and Belgium joined the list in 2026. This IMI guide covers what each country charges, the…
- 4 Ways a Second Passport Can Work Against You · 11 min.A second passport usually adds travel freedom. But at some borders it does the opposite. Which rule you meet depends on which nationality you hold and which document you carry…
- Spain Killed Its Golden Visa: What Investors Do Now · 10 min.Spain issued 14,576 golden visas and received millions in foreign direct investment. Then, they shut the program down for good in 2025. Krista Victorio of Orience explains the…
- The Only 10 Ways to Get a New Citizenship in 2026 · 15 min.Every second citizenship on Earth arrives through one of 10 legal paths, and 4 of them are narrowing. In this video, IMI covers all 10, which six were decided at your birth, and…
- 22 Nations Where Prolonged Absence Ends Citizenship · 17 min.Living abroad long enough can end your citizenship in 22 countries, and 9 of them cancel it automatically without notice. IMI covers how each rule works, the deadlines to put in…
- 20 Nationality-Based Fast-Tracks to 2nd Citizenship · 14 min.The right first passport can cut naturalization timelines from ten years to two, or even one, in 20 nations across Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. IMI maps every…
- 11 Things No One Tells You About Having 2+ Passports · 14 min.Each new citizenship in your portfolio comes with legal fine print that activates on its own: Expiry at 22, automatic cancellation, lifetime tax, or revocation years after…
- Iran War Fallout—The Gulf’s Plans to Attract Capital · 8 min.Gulf venture funding fell 22% in the first half of 2026, yet the region's founders and business owners refuse to leave. Why? In this video, you'll learn about the billions in…
- The 4 Deadlines Every Multi-Passport Parent Misses · 15 min.The citizenships to which your child was born with rights has constraints. The 10 countries mentioned in this video require something of the parents and/or children in order to…
- 6 Ways a Government Can Stop You from Leaving · 16 min.These six legal tools allow the state to stop you, your money, or both from crossing its borders. IMI covers all six, plus the one variable they all depend on and the one thing a…
- Inside Russian Plot to Cancel 10,593 Citizens Abroad · 12 min.Russia's parliament has approved 14 restrictions on convicted citizens abroad, covering frozen funds, annulled e-signatures, and passports that cannot be renewed. IMI covers what…
- 7 Golden Visa Property Markets, Ranked Worst to Best · 14 min.IMI's Global Property Scoreboard scores 146 cities on their investment merits alone, and 7 golden visa favorites land in an order that inverts the marketing. Why? Greece Golden…
- 2 New African Golden Visas: Bold Bets or Blunders? · 10 min.Ethiopia will demand $10 million for its new 10-year golden visa while Kenya revives a residency by investment plan with no price tag at all. IMI covers both programs, how they…
- Passport Rankings Lie: This Beats Visa-Free Travel · 9 min.Most passport rankings measure visa-free travel, but they say nothing about a far more valuable metric: Where your passport gives you the legal right to settle, work, and stay…
- 7 Ways Your Only Passport Can Fail You in 2026 · 11 min.Your passport can be revoked, frozen at the border, or downgraded overnight, and holding only one stacks risk in a single place. Learn the seven ways a single citizenship can…
- Detained or Trapped Abroad? These 27 Passports Help · 10 min.Passport rankings measure visa-free travel, not who comes for you when you're detained, hospitalized, or trapped in a collapsing country. Learn which citizenships pull the most…
- 0% Tax in 6 Countries: How to Get Gulf Golden Visas · 14 min.Every Gulf state operates a golden visa program, and the entry price ranges from $200,000 in one country to $16.3 million in another. Learn about all six GCC investor residency…
- 6 Citizenship Levers for Your Kids Before They’re 18 · 12 min.Building a global citizen family? The levers that decide your child's citizenship mostly close forever at 18. In this video, you'll learn all six ways your baby can become a…
- How to Renounce Your Citizenship (5 Breakup Paths) · 14 min.Few governments let you simply hand back your passport if you want to renounce your citizenship. In fact, one country will tax every asset you own on the way out. In this video…
- 5 Ways to Get an EU Passport Without Paying a Cent · 10 min.Golden visas with routes to eventual citizenship can cost upwards of six figures, but these five routes to EU citizenship require no entry fee at all. And you might already…
- 6 Hidden Tax Problems of Owning a Home Abroad · 12 min.The price of a home abroad is the last simple number you will ever see, because owning one can tax you every year you hold it, again when you sell, and once more after you die…
- How to Get Residency in 9 Post-Soviet States · 9 min.Nine post-Soviet states now sell residency to foreign investors, and Belarus could soon become the first in the former USSR to sell citizenship outright. IMI covers all nine…
- Europe Just Set a Deadline to End Caribbean CBI · 6 min.The European Commission has told all five Caribbean governments operating citizenship by investment programs that they must phase out their programs by June 2028 or lose…
- 8 CRS Holdouts and How to Get Residency There · 11 min.More than 120 countries automatically share your bank data through the Common Reporting Standard, but eight jurisdictions refuse to join. And each one offers a compelling way to…
- 7 Latin American Residency Programs Compared (2026) · 13 min.IMI Pro David Lincoln argues the region that investors once dismissed now offers the rarest asset in investment migration: Livability. In this video, we walk through his analysis…
- The Citizenship Route Everyone Ignores—How to Get It · 5 min.Citizenship by merit allows investors to earn an alternative citizenship by bringing a business, jobs, or investment to a country, with full rights from day one and no language…
- How to Travel with 2+ Passports Without Major Issues · 13 min.Hold two or more passports and one careless border crossing can flag you as an overstayer, cost you consular protection, or earn you an entry ban. IMI covers the document…
- How 100+ Countries Track Your Money (& How to Avoid) · 9 min.More than 100 tax authorities worldwide now receive your bank balance, address, and financial transactions automatically. Moving your money offshore usually doesn't help. In this…
- He Quit Europe to Invest in Emerging Markets: Where? · 9 min.Savory & Partners founder and IMI Pro Jeremy Savory has invested across 11 countries more than 30 times in the last 23 years, and his strongest returns came from places most…
- Could These 3 Safe Tax Havens Replace Dubai in 2027? · 11 min.Dubai's reputation as a safe haven has fractured after the 2026 Iran war, and some of the world's wealthiest are moving themselves and their assets out of the Emirate. In this…
- Ghana Wants to Sell Citizenship: What We Know Now · 6 min.Ghana just wrote citizenship by investment into national law, but the entire plan fits in a single clause. IMI covers what the bill says, what happens now, and why Ghana's…
- A Hidden €300K Path to French Citizenship in 5 Years · 4 min.This video is sponsored content, produced in partnership with The Open World Residencies and Citizenship: France's €300,000 residency by investment route requires no minimum stay…
- 6 Latin American Plan B Programs: Ranked by a Local · 7 min.What you've heard about Latin America may be outdated. In this video, IMI Pro David Lincoln covers the six Latin American residency and citizenship programs increasingly…
- Top 5 Golden Visas Across 5 Continents, No Presence · 4 min.Want flexible international residency with no need to relocate? IMI Pro Rafael Cintron covers his top 5 golden visa residency programs that hand wealthy investors a second base…
- The Doomsday Plan B the Ultra-Rich Won't Share · 7 min.What lessons can you learn from the ultra-rich building global Plan Bs and an advisor who helps them? These portfolios hold up when borders close, banks freeze, and war breaks…
- She's Helping 1K Portugal Golden Visa Investors Sue · 9 min.Portugal rewrote its citizenship rules overnight, stretching naturalization to as long as 10 years with no grandfathering for investors already in the program. IMI Pro Madalena…
